Overview
- An anonymous Reddit user said roughly 300 employees, including leadership, received an email stating, “Your last working day is effective immediately.”
- The post attributed the message to an HR trial of a new offboarding automation tool after someone allegedly failed to manage the test versus live setting correctly.
- Internal Slack channels reportedly erupted, with one manager joking, “Should I start packing?”
- IT intervened with an all-caps clarification that no one had been terminated and employees should not return their badges.
- The account quickly went viral with tens of thousands of upvotes, the company was not identified, and news reports cite the Reddit post rather than an official statement.